Hannah Collins (London, 1956) is a British artist and filmmaker.Collins studied at the Slade Shool of Fine Arts in London (1974-78) and in the United States with a Fulbright scholarship (1978-79). In addition to her artistic activity, she has taught at the University of Davis, California, and the Royal College of Art, London. She was guest lecturer at Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Arts Contemporains, Roubaix, in 2007-08....

EDITION:

Japanese artist, born in 1919 in Kobe, Kumi Sugaï was very active in France from the principle of the fifties.

Pupil of the School of Fine Arts of Osaka, was formed to the occidental pictorial techniques as well as to the traditional calligraphy. At the same time of numerous artists of its country, in that period, it is installed in France, in 1952. Its work sparks off the interest and he informs the following year to different rooms that they organize themselves as much in Paris as abroad (Foundation Carnegie in Pittsburg, Sao Paulo...).

Its first personal exhibition takes place in Paris in 1954. This event, and the year 1954, exhibitions that organize themselves in the entire world in the ten years that continue are for him the preliminary point of numerous. The style of Sugaï keeps evolving. On its arrival in France its technique approaches the graffiti on fund of canvases almost without color; from 1953, it lays out towards the use of more colors and the abstract written signa appear imposing itself gradually...